(I’m working on adding the publication details and the key scholarly articles, but here are some of the authors and titles of the main books I’ve found insightful:)
- Best, E. Mark: The Gospel as Story
- Best, E. The Temptation and the Passion, the Markan Soteriology, 2d ed. (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series)
- Bolt, PG. Jesus’ Defeat of Death: Persuading Mark’s Early Readers
- Bolt, PG. The Cross From a Distance / Atonement in Mark’s Gospel
- Danove, PL. The Rhetoric of Characterization of God, Jesus, and Jesus Disciples in the Gospel of Mark (Library of New Testament Studies)
- Donahue, JR. The Theology and Setting of Discipleship in the Gospel of Mark
- Dowd, SE. Reading Mark: A Literary and Theological Commentary
- Hays, RB. Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels
- Hooker, MD. The Gospel According to Mark
- Horsely, RA. Bandits, Prophets, and Messiahs: Popular Movements at the Time of Jesus, 1st ed. (New Voices in Biblical Studies)
- Horsely, RA. Hearing the Whole Story: the Politics of Plot in Mark’s Gospel
- Iersel, B van. Mark, a Reader-Response Commentary
- Iersel, B van. Reading Mark
- Incigneri, BJ. My God, My God, Why Have You Abandoned Me? The Setting and Rhetoric of Mark’s Gospel
- Incigneri, BJ. The Gospel to the Romans: the Setting and Rhetoric of Marks Gospel Biblical Interpretation Series
- Kelber, W. The Kingdom in Mark, a New Place and a New Time
- Kelber, W. The Passion in Mark, Studies on Mark 14–16
- LaVerdiere, E. The Beginning of the Gospel
- Leander, H. Discourses of Empire: The Gospel of Mark From a Postcolonial Perspective
- Malbon, ES. Hearing Mark, a Listener’s Guide
- Malbon, ES. In the Company of Jesus, Characters in Mark’s Gospel
- Malbon, ES. Narrative Space and Mythic Meaning in Mark
- Marcus. The Way of the Lord: Christological Exegesis of the Old Testament in the Gospel of Mark.
- Myers, B. Binding the Strong Man, a Political Reading of Mark’s Story of Jesus
- Rhoads, D, and D Mitchie, Mark as Story
- Roskam HN, The Purpose of the Gospel of Mark in Its Historical and Social Context
- Sabin, MN. Reopening the Word: Reading Mark as Theology in the Context of Early Judaism
- Sabin, MN. Reopening the Word: Reading Mark as Theology in the Context of Early Judaism
- Telford, WR. The Theology of the Gospel of Mark
- Waetjen, HC. A Reordering of Power: A Sociopolitical Reading of Mark’s Gospel
- Watts, RE. Isaiah’s New Exodus in Mark
- Winn, A. The Purpose of Mark’s Gospel: An Early Christian Response to Roman Imperial Propaganda– WUNT
- Wright, NT. (Numerous titles: The Challenge of Jesus, The Day the Revolution Began, How God Became King, etc.